buckwheaty
buckwheaty adjective: resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
Adjective
buckwheaty (comparative more buckwheaty, superlative most buckwheaty)
- Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
- “There is not anything this side of hell as mean as a licensed saloon, and I would rather have five uncompromising than 500 wishy wash, buckwheaty men to fight this damnable curse.”1892 January 21, “From Friday’s Daily. Another Big Meeting. The Gospel Temperance Revival Still Growing—One Hundred and Forty-Three New Names Added to the Pledges.”, in Albert W. Swalm, editor, The...
- We have just gotten in a car of genuine old-fashioned dark buckwheat. This buckwheat is real old-fashioned kind; it’s pure; it is not mixed with wheat flour, nor corn flour, nor anything else; it’s the regular old buckwheaty buckwheat and you’ll like it.1904 December 2, The Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., “Save Money”, in The Cincinnati Post, volume 47, number 131, Cincinnati, Oh., page 13
- With buckwheat.
- Now she is Frederick, all valleys and hills, / The Linganore driving the old water-mills; / Now she is Garrett—most rugged of maids / A-wing o’er the bloom of the buckwheaty glades, / Tiptoe on peaks where the Great Savage thrills / The heart that looks off from its huge colonnades / To the winding...1910 March 21, the Bentztown Bard [pseudonym], “[Maryland Musings.] Little Miss Maryland.”, in The Sun, volume CXLVI, number 125, Baltimore, Md., page 6, column 3
- Breakfast? No Longer Buckwheaty / We learn with dismay that the 1955 crop of buckwheat was the smallest in 89 years. It now takes only two million bushels a year to fill the demand. At that rate we shall soon have a generation of children who never tasted a buckwheat cake on a frosty morning.1956 January 8, “Breakfast? No Longer Buckwheaty”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 87, number 274, Charlotte, N.C., page 2-C, column 1
Examples of buckwheaty in a sentence
- New Buckwheat, that good old-fashioned kind of dark Buckwheat that has the real buckwheaty taste, three pounds for 10 cents.1905 October 20, The Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., “New Goods”, in The Cincinnati Post, volume 50, number 98, Cincinnati, Oh., page 5:
- Fall-gathered honey, with sufficient buckwheat to give it a buckwheaty flavor.1907 October 15, James McNeill, “Honey and Wax For Sale”, in Gleanings in Bee Culture, volume XXXV, number 20, Medina, Oh.: The A[mos]...
- A luxury when “porching.” Fastidious travellers throw aside the soggy, buckwheaty blankets of Pullmans and use their Steamer Rugs instead.1910 February 9, “You Need Not Take an Ocean Voyage in Order to Utilize These Steamer Rugs”, in The Sun, volume LXXVII, number 162, New...
- It’s / morning glory / BuckwheaT / self-rising / Such cakes have that almost-forgotten, old-fashioned “buckwheaty” flavor.1910 September 30, Reeves, Parvin & Co., “More and Better Buckwheat Cakes”, in Evening Herald, volume XXXXI, number 233, Shenandoah, Pa....
Forms of buckwheaty
| comparative | more buckwheaty |
|---|---|
| superlative | most buckwheaty |
Origin of buckwheaty
From buckwheat + -y.
Questions about buckwheaty
- What does buckwheaty mean?
- Buckwheaty means resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
- How do you use buckwheaty in a sentence?
- New Buckwheat, that good old-fashioned kind of dark Buckwheat that has the real buckwheaty taste, three pounds for 10 cents.
- What part of speech is buckwheaty?
- Buckwheaty is an adjective.
Words near buckwheaty in the dictionary
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